Question

In a town in France,there was a farmer who lived alone. Every day he s1 a pound of butter to his neighbour,who was a baker. One day the baker decided to weigh the butter to see i 2 he was getting a pound. After he weighed it,he found that he wasn’t. The baker then took the farmer to the judge (法官) . The judge wanted to know the farmer’s ways to weigh the butter. The farmer replied ,“I'm so p 3 that I do not have enough money to buy anything to weigh it. H 4,I do have a kind of scale (天平) . ”

The judge asked ,“Then h 5 do you weigh the butter?” The farmer replied ,“Before the baker started buying butter from me,I had bought bread from him. So now every time when I b 6 home the bread from the baker,I put it on the scale and give him the butter of the same w 7. ”

We always get back what we give to others.. Whenever you take action,ask yourself this question, “Am I honest?”

Honesty or dishonesty can become a habit. Some dishonest people can lie w 8 a red face. Others lie so m 9 that they do not even know what the truth is any more. But who is it bad for? In fact,those who lie will hurt t 10 by their own dishonest behaviour.

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5. 7.8. 9. 10.

Answer 1

 1. sold   2. if   3. poor   4. However   5. how

6. bring   7. weight   8. without   9. much  10. themselves